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Solaris Raid Level and Array Type Primer

Updated 6 Dec 2000 Read time 6 min(s) 37 sec(s) (601 visits).

A simple article highligting the raid levels and arry types available for the Solaris operating system

Updated 31 Aug 2002 Read time 4 min(s) 12 sec(s) (2760 visits).

Solstice DiskSuite is a software product that enables you to manage large numbers of disks and the data on those disks.

Updated 17 Jan 2005 Read time 42 sec(s) (2374 visits).

Did you know that it is also possible without a volume manager? You just have to know some special arguments to the mkfs command.

Updated 26 Apr 1998 Read time 48 sec(s) (2267 visits).

Creating a RAID 5 metadevice with DiskSuite is extremely simple. Unlike creating mirrors which involves several steps.

Updated 2 Sep 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 9 sec(s) (2471 visits).

A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.

Updated 26 Apr 1999 Read time 1 min 45 sec(s) (2296 visits).

A metatrans device is identical to any other kind of metadevice. In order to configure the device it is assumed there is a free slice on each disk.

Updated 28 Feb 2006 Read time 33 sec(s) (2345 visits).

SVM provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.

Updated 24 Jun 1999 Read time 4 min(s) 2 sec(s) (2600 visits).

A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.